Evaluation of a Year-Round Grazing System: Winter Progress Report

The winter component of a year-round grazing system involving grazing of corn crop residues followed by grazing stockpiled grass-legume forages was compared at the McNay Research Farm with that of the winter component of a minimal land system that maintained cows in drylot. In the summers of 1995 and 1996, two and one cuttings of hay per year were harvested from two 15-acre fields containing “Johnston” low endophtye tall fescue and red clover. Two cuttings of hay in 1995 and one cutting in 1996 were harvested from two 15-acre fields of smooth bromegrass and red clover. Hay yields were 4,236 and 4,600 pounds of dry matter per acre for the tall fescue-red clover in 1995 and 1996, and 2,239 and 2,300 pounds of dry matter per acre for the smooth bromegrass-red clover in 1995 and 1996. Following grain harvest, four 7.5-acre fields containing corn crop residues were stocked with cows at midgestation at an allowance of 1.5 acres per cow. Forage yields at the initiation of corn crop grazing in 1995 and 1996 were 3,757 and 3,551 pounds of dry matter per acre for corn crop residues. Stockpiled forage yields were 1,748 and 2,912 pounds of dry matter for tall fescue-red clover and 1,880 and 2,187 pounds for smooth bromegrass-red clover. Corn crop residues and stockpiled forages were grazed in a strip stocking system. For comparison, 20 cows in 1995 and 16 cows in 1996 were placed in two drylots simultaneously with initiation of corn crop grazing, where they remained throughout the winter and spring grazing periods. Cows maintained in drylots or grazing corn crop residue and stockpiled forages were supplemented with hay as large round bales to maintain a body condition score of five. In both years, no seasonal differences in body weight and body condition score were observed between grazing cows or cows maintained in drylots, but grazing cows required 85% and 98% less harvested hay in years 1 and 2 than cows in drylot during the winter and spring. Because less hay was needed to maintain grazing cows, excesses of 12,354 and 5,244 pounds of hay dry matter per cow in 1995 and 1996 remained in the year-round grazing system. During corn crop grazing, organic matter yield decreased at 23.5 and 28.8 pounds of organic matter per day from grazed areas of corn crop residues in 1995 and 1996. Organic matter losses due to weathering were 6.8, 10.3, and 12.7 pounds per day in corn crop residue, tall fescue-red clover and smooth bromegrass-red clover in 1995 and 12.1, 10.7, and 12.1 in 1996. Organic matter losses from grazed and ungrazed areas of tall fescue-red clover and smooth bromegrass-red clover during stockpiled grazing were 6.9, 6.9, and 2.1, 2.9 in 1995 and 13.4, 4.3, and +6.9, 4.4 pounds per day in 1996.

Investigation on the evolution of an indoor robotic localization system based on wireless networks

This work addresses the evolution of an artificial neural network (ANN) to assist in the problem of indoor robotic localization. We investigate the design and building of an autonomous localization system based on information gathered from wireless networks (WN). The article focuses on the evolved ANN, which provides the position of a robot in a space, as in a Cartesian coordinate system, corroborating with the evolutionary robotic research area and showing its practical viability. The proposed system was tested in several experiments, evaluating not only the impact of different evolutionary computation parameters but also the role of the transfer functions on the evolution of the ANN. Results show that slight variations in the parameters lead to significant differences on the evolution process and, therefore, in the accuracy of the robot position.

Megaleh nistarot : Enthüller literärischer Geheimnisse eines unvergleichlichen Literaten ; eine außergewöhnliche Rezension über e. in Sárospatak 1868 u. d. Namen "Mikroé-Kodesch" ersch., angeblich von Is. R-er. ... verf. "Biblische Geschichte"

von Israel Singer. Mit e. Beitr. von Ignatz Führer

Der Stammbaum des R. Eleasar Fleckeles, eine Ahnenprobe Moritz Hartmanns

von David Kaufmann

Sēfer marʿē ham-mûsār : der tzuchṭ špigl ... wol fer ṭaiṭšṭ

baʿal ham-meḥabbēr ... Seligman Ulma fun Gentzburg gišlechṭ

Ms. hebr. qu. 16 - Teshuvot Maharam

Vorbesitzer: Abraham Broda; Abraham Merzbacher

Iggeret mûsār : morališe brive in guṭn und reinn ṭaiṭš

Digitalisat der Ausg. Frankfurṭ de-Oder, [1799/1800]

Mevaśśēr ḥadāšôt : mim-meṣî'ût ʿaśeret haš-ševāṭîm û-mišpaḥat yehûd ...

neʿttāq li-lešôn aškenazzî ... mē-... Yôsēf Šwarṣ

Qûnṭrēs Gezērôt tatn"û : do iz dertzeilṭ di heriges un di redifes wos iden zainen osgešṭanen in di lender Tzorfas un Aškenaz in dem jor (tatn"û) ...

dos hoben mir meʿatik gewen fun loišn ha-koideš wos das hoṭ meḥaber gewen rabenu Eliezer Bar-Natan ... Raba"n...

Maʿaśē Avînādāv : we-hû iggeret mûsār bi-lešôn ṣaḥ we-nāqî we-yôfî ham-melîṣā ...

[Johann Jakob Dusch]

Sēfer Minḥā ṭehôrā : kôlēl dînîm mē-hilkôt melîḥā, niddā, ḥallā we-hadlāqā bi-lešôn askenazzî ṣaḥ we-nāqî ... le-tôʿelet benôt Yiśrā'ēl

... Zalmān B. ... Mōše Bônhard

Sēfer Maʿggālê ṣedeq : ke-šemô kēn hû-vô ketûbbā ḥaqûqā û-mevô'ārā, be-śāfā zakkā û-berûrā, darkê ṣedeq we-yôšer ôrēaḥ selûlā ... netîvôt ham-mišpāṭ darkê hat-tôrā ...

... Gavrî'ēl Ben-Ḥayyîm Miller

Maftēaḥ lešôn haq-qôdeš : welchś biṭrachṭ hoṭ ... do miṭ zi zoln kenn di (tôrā nevî'îm û-ktûvîm) miṭ ali (šôrāšîm) ... fer ṭaiṭšn ...

... Jiśroel Ben-Avraham Avinu